BONE PICKER. A footman.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Happy Birthday to Ian MacKaye, singer and guitarist of Fugazi, born on this day in 1962, Washington, D.C.

Fugazi - Bad Mouth (live, 1991)

43 years ago today
The Plugz – Los Angeles, April 16, 1982

The Plugz were one of the first punk bands in LA, one of the first latino punk bands, and the first to start their own record label, Plugz Record.

Gary Leonard

48 years ago today
The unforgotten Poly Styrene with X-Ray Spex at Greyhound, Park Lane, Croydon, April 16, 1977.

Photos by Gus Stewart

35 years ago today
Spanking Machine is the debut album by American punk rock band Babes in Toyland, released on this day in 1990 includes the Single 'Dust Cake Boy'.

Happy Birthday to Ian MacKaye, American singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and frontman of  Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Teen Idles and Embrace, born on this day in 1962, Washington DC

Happy Birthday to Ian MacKaye, American singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and frontman of  Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Teen Idles and Embrace, born on this day in 1962, Washington DC

Events for the 16th of April from Wikipedia:

• 2007: Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shooting
• Birth (1952) of Esther Roth-Shahamorov, Israeli sprinter and hurdler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Roth-Shahamorov
• Holiday: April 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_16_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
#history #events #historical #today @histodons

"I was just following orders" will not hold up at the Hague.

**The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter”**

“This image responds to chapter 2, where Hester leaves prison to endure public humiliation on the town scaffold. The text describes women resentful of Hester's beauty, who find her punishment too lenient–figures shown here below the steps.”

Felix Octavius Carr Darley | The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'The Scarlet Letter' | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1879). https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/406020.

#OpenAccess #PublicDomain #Image #History #Fiction #Book #Bookstodon #Literature #TheScarletLetter #NathanielHawthorne #HesterPrynne @literature @bookstodon

**The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850**

“_Isenberg takes readers to the contested borders of Spanish Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, California, Texas, and Minnesota at critical moments in the early to mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that the architects of American expansion faced significant challenges from the diverse groups of people inhabiting each region._”

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469685052/the-age-of-the-borderlands/.

#Nonfiction #History #ManifestDestiny #USA #UnitedStates #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon

Was at the library today doing some film digitizing and came across this magazine in their archives - "The New Negro Traveler and Conventioneer" from *1973*.
Here's the front cover, back, and a page of ads.

Standish Hospital, England

Standish Hospital started out as a manor house. Later, it saw a variety of medical uses over the decades. Eventually, it closed in 2004.

Read more: https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/medical/standish-hospital-england/

From the archives: A school #vouchers flashback—the Observer published this feature from former editor Lou Dubose in its March 27, 1998, edition. The prior year’s private school voucher proposal narrowly died at the Lege. https://www.texasobserver.org/whos-paying-for-public-school-vouchers-1998/

Henry Box Brown (l. c. 1815-1897) was an enslaved African American who became famous as "the man who mailed himself to freedom" after he had himself shipped in a box from Richmond, Virginia, to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 29 March 1849. #History #HenryBoxBrown #Abolitionism #Slavery #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24329-en/

AUTEM CACKLETUB. A conventicle or meeting-house for dissenters. CANT.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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